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Vehicle logistics threatened by microchip shortage

Logistics Business Magazine

Inventories are close to zero, volumes have fallen dramatically, factories are closing without notice, unbalanced flows are destroying efficiency and thus profitability. The result is empty yards, empty workshops, idle and under-utilised car transporters, trains and ships.

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“The pandemic has changed the industry”

Logistics Business Magazine

And we also communicate with our business partners or colleagues within the Clark organisation via video conference. At the moment, therefore, production is running in all our factories and the supply chains are also largely intact. That means you use the free workshop capacities for reconditioning used equipment? Absolutely!

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Flight club

Automotive Logistics

BMW, for example, has started to use dronesat its factory in Leipzig to count external storage bins for parts – work that was previously done by personnel. mpu_ad]Meanwhile, Skoda is trialling an autonomous drone to identify and count containers outside its factory in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic.